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Recent Stories on Sparks
Jared and Ivy are Social Innovation Fellows who have created Moving Mountains, an organization that uses outdoor education to empower urban youth to achieve academically, embrace civic engagement, and practice lifelong environmental stewardship.
Nina Perrotta '16 is a Communications and Marketing Intern for Amos House through the iProv Summer Internship program.
Lucia Monge RISD-MFA '15 is a Social Innovation Fellow who created Planton Movil in her home city of Lima, Peru. This summer she is working on a curriculum to inspire environmental stewardship in young people.
Maneul Contreras '16 is a Social Innovation Fellow developing 1vyG, an organization that strengthens and empowers first-generation communities.
Daniel Coppersmith '15 is a Royce Fellow studying depression and suicide in Ethiopia.
Maya Finoh '17 is working with the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) through an iProv Summer Internship.
Katie Rose Lamb '16 is a Policy Intern for the Rhode Island Health Center Association through the iProv Summer Internship Program.
Hannah Duncan '15 is a recipient of the Royce Fellowship this summer to research the evolution of the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) to investigate relationships between the local leadership of CDGM and the funding provided, and later withheld, by the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Benjamin Flakoll '16 is a Royce Fellow studying horse performance and motivation in the hopes that his findings will allow him to develop and test humane teaching methods that will serve as a new example for horse training.